Feruza Sadikova was born on 23 April 2002, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She started practicing sports at a school-internat of the Olympic reserve in the city of Chirchik.[1][2]
Since 2018, she has been participating in major sports competitions. In that year, she won the Uzbekistan Cup for the prizes of the Republic of Korea Ambassador in Uzbekistan.[3] In 2019, she won a bronze medal at the World Military Games in the weight category up to 62 kg, held in Wuhan, China.[4] In the same year, she competed in the World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester, the United Kingdom. In the first round, Sadikova defeated Natali Hamadi from Kuwait, but lost in the following round. She then won a bronze medal at the Asian Youth Taekwondo Championships .[5] On June 18, 2021, at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in Beirut, Lebanon, Sadikova won the gold medal in the weight category up to 62 kg, defeating Chon Chhye from the Republic of Korea.[6][7] In the same year, she won the "Beirut Open" international competition.
In 2022, Sadikova won the gold medal at the international tournament "Fujairah Open" .[8] In the 1/8 finals at the Grand Prix in Rome, Italy, she lost to Caroline Santos from Brazil. However, she later won a bronze medal at the President's Cup of the Asian Taekwondo Federation. In June, she participated in the weight category up to 62 kg at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in the Korean city of Chuncheon. On June 25, in the semifinal match, she lost to Nastaran Valizade from Iran and won only a bronze medal. [9]
In 2023, at the World Taekwondo Championships held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in the 62 kg category, Sadikova won a bronze medal.[10] In October of the same year, in Hangzhou, China, at the Summer Asian Games in the weight category up to 67 kg, she won a silver medal, losing in the final to a Chinese athlete.[11]
In 2024, Sadikova won the silver medal at the Asian Championships, losing to Thailand's Sasikarn Tongchan in the final.[12]
